Creating the project

When working with PCFs, the Power Platform CLI is responsible for creating your component’s project structure. It also manages the project’s packaging as a Power Platform solution that can be deployed to your environments.

This command-line tool also performs other tasks, such as the following:

• Managing plug-in projects that harness the event framework of Dataverse
• Handling authentication to deploy solutions to the Power Platform environments directly from the command line
• Packing and unpacking of canvas apps

Please refer to the official documentation to discover these and other functionalities: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/developer/cli/introduction

Getting ready

Let’s continue by building the project structure for our code component and configuring the project’s manifest. This file defines your component by describing its metadata...